Montgomery County's first-ever Asian American sheriff — Maxwell Uy — takes on staff shortages, courthouse safety and society's ongoing mental health crises.
We are the law enforcement arm of the courts. We’re responsible for the safe movement of incarcerated persons securely within the Circuit Court — and to and from the jails. We maintain two holding facilities in the two district courts. We serve civil court papers and serve criminal and civil warrants. We’re charged with doing evictions, enforcing the child support process. We serve domestic violence orders, red-flag orders and mental health Emergency Evaluation Petitions.Staffing. By far.
We’re not seeing the numbers of applicants show up for testing sessions, period. Over the years, I’ve seen it fluctuate — from 60, maybe more, to about 30 at testing sessions. Now you can sometimes count the number of people showing up on one hand.One thing is we’re trying to address communities that don’t normally think of law enforcement as a profession.
What I also need to look at is how we’re advertising. We have stuck with advertising on websites like Facebook. And I don’t have the answer necessarily, but we need to start looking at how we’re getting our message out.Anyone you can name. I’d like, as the first Asian American sheriff in Montgomery — and I certainly don’t want to stereotype — but Asian Americans tend not to be represented as much as some other communities in law enforcement.
; I don’t want our deputies commanding defendants or calling out behaviors if they don’t have to. We don’t want to be the ones to cause a mistrial.How do you strike a balance if, for instance, your deputies see a defendant staring down a juror? We don’t want courtroom deputies addressing things in too obvious a way. If they saw a defendant doing that, that could be situation where on a break, the deputy might approach an attorney or a law clerk to share their concerns that way.
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